1. This Second Appeal by the 1st defendant is from concurrent decrees setting aside an alienation and directing recovery of possession of property from him. The 3rd defendant is the mother of the plaintiff and defendants 4 and 5. In 1103 when the plaintiff and defendants 4 and 5 were minors, a partition deed Ext. A was executed between the 3rd defendant and her brother Narayanan Krishnan, the former acting as guardian of her minor children. Under the said deed, Narayanan Krishnan received a sum of money in lieu of his share of tarwad property and the property described in the plaint schedule thereafter belonged to the sub-tarwad of the 3rd defendant and her children. Defendants 3 and 4, the former acting as guardian of the plaintiff, executed a Nischaya patrom Ext. B dated 20.12.1106 whereunder the plaint property was conveyed to Narayanan Krishnan, reserving a life estate therein for the 3rd defendant. The latter and Narayanan Krishnan then jointly mortgaged the property to one Chellappan Pillai who assigned the same to the 1st defendant. Narayanan Krishnan and the 3rd defendant then sold the equity of redemption to the 2nd defendant and the latter transferred his righ